80–89 BPM · Andante

Songs at 88 BPM

One beat

681.8 ms60,000 ÷ 88

Recordings: 68at this whole tempo
Half time: 44BPM
Double time: 176BPM
Most used key: A major10 recordings

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

68 recordings on this site sit at 88 beats per minute once each one's analyses are reduced to their median. A score would call that Andante, by the ranges printed on the data page.

One beat lasts 681.8 milliseconds. That makes an eighth note 340.9 ms, a dotted eighth 511.4 ms and a sixteenth 170.5 ms — the delay times that will sit in time with anything at this tempo.

Half time is 44 BPM and double time is 176; a tempo detector that disagrees with this page by a factor of two is usually counting one of those instead.

10 of them are in A major, more than any other key at this tempo.

Delay times at 88 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2727.3	0.37
Half note	2	1363.6	0.73
Dotted quarter	1.5	1022.7	0.98
Quarter note (one beat)	1	681.8	1.47
Quarter triplet	0.667	454.5	2.2
Dotted eighth	0.75	511.4	1.96
Eighth note	0.5	340.9	2.93
Eighth triplet	0.333	227.3	4.4
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	255.7	3.91
Sixteenth note	0.25	170.5	5.87
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	113.6	8.8
Thirty-second note	0.125	85.2	11.73

88 BPM, key by key

Each key links to its list at this tempo band (80–89 BPM) where there is one, and to the whole key otherwise.

The recordings

Every recording whose median tempo rounds to 88 BPM, most analysed first. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

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